My girlfriend, my daughter-in-law (Mantu becomes sister-in-law)
Bonus part 2
"You know, honey. When Gita got Chicco pregnant, I didn't feel what it was like to be with my wife? How to feel Gita's strange request? How do I feel every moment my wife is nauseous and vomiting? At the sight of Roki being so alert towards his wife, there was a shackling envy. By the time I got out of prison our son-in-law was dead.
There is a sense of regret that shackles, if my face is not similar to Boy, if the accident did not happen to me, maybe the story will be different. They never even told me about Gita's condition when I was in prison."
"Darling.." Ina tried to strengthen her husband.
"I feel like a loser. What kind of husband am I, not there when the wife needs. I'm just causing trouble in Gita's life. That's why Mama Lia hates me so much. When Gita becomes pregnant with Shasa, problem after problem returns to tapering. Especially when I was at the top of the position, there were many enemies in the blanket that entered our lives.
I only felt the euphoria of Gita's pregnancy when she was five months and older. The Gita who always asks to be hugged every time I go to work, who always comes surprise in the office with his jealousy. We really feel like mom and dad waiting for the child."
"Darling, can you forget the bitterness that once occurred between you. Gita's calm, she's happy there. So don't remember it anymore. Okay, I don't mean to ask to forget about Gita, but what's wrong with us focusing on the future." Ina put Nature's hand on her stomach. So that her husband feels the heartbeat of the child.
"Doctor said if you look at my stomach. Looks like our boy's. But when I tried to take it to the campus clinic, it didn't look what kind of kid we were." Obviously Ina.
"Whatever the result would be a man or a woman he was born safely. He was born with a full family. I don't want our son to be like Shasa, who was born without seeing his birth mother. I want her to feel her mother's affection." Say Nature while the stomach of the wife who has entered six months.
"So Lia's phone call, we were told to leave until I gave birth. What do you think, mas?"
"Actually we'll have a hard time coming home. I heard that since the omicron, the airport has started to tighten passenger reception. Not to mention we have to take care of a complicated visa for mercy. But I'll try to get us back to Indonesia."
Ina also several times heard the news that airlines around the world have started tight. Although restrictions are gradually lifted, passengers can be reintroduced at any time and preventive health measures are encouraged. Stricter or more relaxed guidelines may apply depending on the prefecture you are visiting. Information related to handling COVID-19 in Japan. Just like other countries, Japan also imposes a covid test at the airport, Mask inspection, also for passengers who come must have complete requirements.
Ina just stroked the chest if indeed they were going through that time. Where the strictest state regulations since Omicron increasingly become.
For example, Shasa school had to be closed because his teacher was exposed to COVID 19. And since then, Shasa has been more at home and hospital due to still undergoing chemotherapy.
The Flashback
A few days ago, word emerged that the medical school on campus was holding a health bazaar. Based on the invitation of Fitri, her fellow Indonesian upperclassman, Ina took a health test there.
"you pregnant?(you pregnant?)" Ask one of the health workers there.
"Yes I am already 6 months pregnant" (Yes, I'm already six months pregnant.)
"Are you married?( are you married?)"
"I was married 1.5 years ago.(I was married 1.5 years ago)"
"Goodle. I'll check first (Good. I'll check it out, yeah)."
"good progress, madam. Your child is very activeI suggest you start walking of in the morning so that the fetus goes down .(( Developments
good, madam. Your child is very active. I suggest you start walking early in the morning. So that the fetus down makes it easier for labor)" explained the health worker.
Flashback off
"You can't wear these slippers anymore." Omel Alam is currently wearing flip flops when going to the kitchen.
"Wiggly! I don't want you and our son to do anything. Continue from now on you get used to wearing a dress do not suit. One more thing, I don't like that Takeru's still driving you home."
"In the meantime, I'm not home with Takeru either. But same Eren too, his fiancee takeru." Obviously Ina.
Since Ina was four months pregnant, Takeru and Eren have helped her a lot. Two lovebirds who had been away from Ina when they found out the girl had married. Takeru, who initially approached Ina for falling in love with the girl, keeps Eren at a distance from Ina because of her jealousy towards the girl. But slowly everything changed, Eren who was at his age offered a rope of friendship. Moreover, he and Takeru had agreed to undergo a serious relationship so that his jealousy with Ina was reduced.
It's just that, Alam still has not accepted the figure of Takeru to be close to his wife. Although Ina always said that they were just friends. Eren is always with them. So what is jealousy for.
Since becoming pregnant 5 months and above, Nature has more activity at home than to the office. Since the matter of Rangga and Laras who said the test of marriage. Nature often brings work at home, in addition to being able to monitor his children and his wife.
The status of Nature who rose to become a confidant of Rangga is not an easy thing. The first six months of work he was still on unpaid trials. Even so, Alam and Ina always get intensive facilities. Rangga helped finance Shasa chemotherapy which cost not a little. Including the selection of the best doctors for Ina pregnancy consultation. Nature sometimes feels bad with Rangga's helping hand. Although Rangga always said "It's my duty as a sister."
Because of that Nature began to work tenacious, so that it could replace everything that had been given Rangga. After six months of testing and success. Alam finally felt his first salary after two months he was actively working. In the end, he no longer depends on the facilities provided by Rangga.
Ina could only accept restraint from her husband. A confinement full of love. And she was happy with her husband's treatment.
clique
Now, according to global figures from the ADP Research Institute, one in 10 people say they are overtime up to 20 hours a week without being paid. On average, workers go through 9.2 hours of unpaid overtime each week. Worldwide, overtime rates rose sharply after the Covid-19 pandemic. The number has more than doubled in North America.
That's what Nature felt this late, since Rangga returned to Indonesia. Since then the burden of responsibility is getting bigger, Rangga mandated the company in the handle by Nature. Not to hands off but there is a more emergency in advance, namely household problems.
Remote work has increased the problem. The average working day globally is extended by almost two hours.
Research shows that most employers in the UK admit that their staff work extra hours that are not paid every day.
Workers can attribute the rise in overtime to the loss of the boundary between personal life and work. During the pandemic, the journey from home to office, the physical building of the office and the hours of lunch breaks were not felt by many white-collar workers.
They also do not have clear limits on when to start and finish working hours. They opened the email at breakfast. Working hours continue into the night. Meetings through Zoom even lasted until the early hours.
For many workers, overtime outside of work hours has become a hope, not an exception. But this is rarely explicitly spelled out orally, let alone in writing.
Rather, it is a tacit understanding agreed between employer and employee: forget about working hours, you can only get out of work hours after actually completing a task on the day.
Nature sits in front of her work laptop. Wrestle with time so that he does not return home. Although it is still three in the afternoon, especially ina say goodbye there will be an afternoon lecture. He allowed it but his heart was still not careless. Thinking about pregnancy conditions.
"Go back to Indonesia, son. Lahiran here." Marni said as she called her eldest son.
"But, mom. It will be hard to come home soon. Poor thing Ina has to travel a long way."
"Lam, he's more sorry when he's there. You work, she must take care of the child while pregnant. So pregnant people are wrong. If he's here, he'll help her a lot."
"Let's go, Ina, wait for her semester exam. We just got time off both for office and campus."
